A PENSIONER has been removed from an aircraft for 'persistent racist comments' directed at a flight attendant, according to the Guardia Civil. The Binter flight from Palma de Mallorca to Tenerife North had not...

A FATHER whose eight-year-old son was smuggled into Spain in a suitcase has escaped with a €92 fine, but the woman who carried the little boy past the border could face up to six years in jail. Ali Outtara and his...

THREE British tourists have been arrested in Gran Canaria for constantly insulting a gay couple on their flight from East Midlands airport. The accused holidaymakers, aged between 25 and 28, made homophobic comments...

SIX tourists stuck in the snow in Gran Canaria had to be rescued last night (Friday), reports the Guardia Civil, whose officers took the photograph shown here (left). The holidaymakers had gone hiking up a mountain...

AT LEAST seven occupants of a migrant raft which washed up on Canary Island shores today (Monday) have died and an eighth is in a critical condition in hospital, regional emergency services report. Guardia Civil...

FORMER player for CD Tenerife and Wigan FC Juan Carlos García has died from leukaemia at the age of 29 in his home city of Tegucigalpa, according to the National Autonomous Football Federation in Hondurás. García...

A SALES assistant at El Corte Inglés department store in Santa Cruz de Tenerife has lost her case against her dismissal for telling a seven-year-old child that presents came from her parents rather than Father...

TENERIFE South airport needs a new terminal this year if it is going to be able to cope with any increase in holidaymaker numbers, the Canary Island regional government says. Its infrastructure and transport deputy...

A FATHER has been arrested in Arrecife (Lanzarote) for leaving his eight-year-old son locked in his car to go to a bingo hall. The accused, 33, is said to have an existing criminal record and was caught after residents...

A NATIONAL Police sub-chief in Tenerife has been found shot dead in his office with what appears to be a gun used in the force. José Miguel Camejo, 58, had served in the Basque Country and Navarra during the years the...

NUMEROUS partygoers were injured this morning (Sunday) when a nightclub floor collapsed in Tenerife. Emergency services say the 'Butterfly' club, in the Salytien shopping centre in the Playa de las Américas...

TRAFFIC authorities are working closely with Tenerife's island government to try to prevent elderly pedestrians from being run over through a joint campaign aimed at protecting walkers most at risk. The taskforce...